2000
SEPTEMBER
September 19, 2000
Elections in Peru
Ray Suarez discusses President Fujimori's exit from power.

September 11, 2000
Lost and Found
Archaeologist Arthur Demarest tells the story behind the excavation of an ancient Mayan city.

September 6, 2000
Newsmaker: Alberto Fujimori
Elizabeth Farnsworth speaks with Peru's President Alberto Fujimori about his reelection earlier this year.

AUGUST
August 30, 2000
Drug War
After a background report, four experts discuss President Clinton's visit to Colombia, the drug war and the United States' $1.3 billion aid package.

JUNE
June 28, 2000
Going Home
Elian Gonzalez and his family went home to Cuba. A discussion with Maria de los Angeles Torres, author of "In the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile Politics in the United States," Juan Gonzalez, author of "Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America," and Charles Lane, an editorial writer for The Washington Post.

June 22, 2000
War on Drugs
Colombia is one of the biggest exporters of illegal drugs to the U.S. Senators Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.) and Paul Wellstone (D- Minn.), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discuss a $1.3 billion aid package approved to help combat the drug trade.

MAY
May 29, 2000
Elections in Peru
Experts discuss the problems with the recent debated Peruvian elections.

May 19, 2000
Nation Building
Jose Ramos Horta, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and vice president of the East Timorese Resistance Council, discusses the fight for independence from Indonesia.

May 11, 2000
Tug of War
The appeals court heard arguments questioning the INS's decision to dismiss Elian Gonzalez's asylum application. Jay Weaver, a reporter for the Miami Herald, Wendy Young, staff attorney for the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and Philip Schrag, director of Georgetown University's Asylum Law Clinic, discuss the case.

May 5, 2000
Peru's Challenger
Alejandro Toledo, the Peruvian opposition leader, talks about his challenge to President Alberto Fujimori and the issues that have become important in his campaign.

May 3, 2000
Island Showdown
Representative Jose Serrano, a Democrat from New York, and Democratic Delegate Carlos Romero-Barcelo, from Puerto Rico, talk about the showdown between the U.S. government and some Puerto Rican citizens.

APRIL
April 26, 2000
The Elian Debate
A roundtable discussion on the editorial and op-ed coverage of the Elian Gonzalez. Washington Post reporter E.J. Dionne, Los Angeles Times contributing editor Robert Scheer, and Pacific News Service editor and columnist Richard Rodriguez, who is also a Newshour essayist.

April 20, 2000
Rule of Law
Examining the legalities surrounding the custody battle over Elian Gonzalez. Alexander Aleinikoff, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who was general counsel during President Clinton's first term and Grover Joseph Rees, staff director and chief counsel for a House International Relations subcommittee, who was INS general counsel during the Bush Administration.

April 13, 2000
Tug of War
Kwame Holman updates the days events in the ongoing custody battle over Elian Gonzalez.

April 13, 2000
Runoff in Peru
Questions of corruption are overshadowing recent presidential elections and the upcoming runoff race. Our guests are Dennis Jett, who served in the U.S. Foreign service for 27 years and was U.S. ambassador to Peru from 1996 to 1999, Vladimir Kocerha, a correspondent for El Gestion, a Peruvian financial newspaper, and for CPN, Peru's second largest radio network, and Carol Graham a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

April 7, 2000
Tug of War
Roger Bernstein, one of the lawyers representing Elian Gonzalez's U.S. relatives in Miami, gives his perspective on the case that will decide the Cuban boy's fate.

April 7, 2000
Tug of War
Owen B. Cooper, the general counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Services, gives the government's perspective on the latest events in the Elian Gonzalez case.

April 6, 2000
Tug of War
Kwame Holman examines the turns in the Elian Gonzalez case since Elian's father's arrival in the U.S.

MARCH
March 30, 2000
War of Words
The legal and political battle over Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez shows no signs of resolution. Correspondent Kwame Holman offers the latest.

March 13, 2000
Chile: Confronting the Past
Senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from Chile on the national debate about truth and justice.

March 2, 2000
Pinochet's Release
Following a background report by Independent Television News, senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth discusses the state of Chile with president-elect Ricardo Lagos.

March 1, 2000
Forum: Releasing Pinochet
After 17 months under house arrest in Britain on alleged human rights abuses, Augusto Pinochet is back in Chile. Should he have been set free? Experts respond to your questions.

FEBRUARY
February 15, 2000
Drug War Update
Congressional correspondent Kwame Holman gives an update on the United States House hearings which are establishing the U.S. position on the war on drugs in Colombia.

JANUARY
January 25, 2000
Tug of War: Congress Gets Involved
Correspondent Kwame Holman updates the story of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez who is currently living in the United States with his extended family. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida, and Representative Charles Rangel, a Democrat from New York, offer two views from the perspective of Congress.

January 18, 2000
Miami Madness
Correspondent Kwame Holman explores the various perspectives regarding the custody battle over a six-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez. The central question is whether he will stay in the United States with his relatives or be returned to his father in Cuba.

January 13, 2000
The Tug of War Continues
Jose Garcia-Pedrosa, a lawyer for Elian Gonzalez, and Bruce Boyer, supervisory attorney for Northwestern University's School of Law, Children and Family Justice Center, discuss the latest in negotiations over the fate of the Cuban six-year-old.

January 5, 2000
Tug of War
Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the decision regarding the guardianship of a Cuban boy found clinging to an inner tube in the waters outside Miami; then, Jorge Mas, chairman of The Cuban American National Foundation and Alexander Aleinikoff, professor at Georgetown University Law Center, join Senior Correspondent Maragret Warner with perspectives on the decision to return Elian Gonzalez to his father in Cuba.